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Brief reviews about Zeiss victory SFL 8/10 x40
I haven't tried 30mm sfl. it is still not available in South Korea yet... :( -
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Brief reviews about Zeiss victory SFL 8/10 x40
I think the eye placement is best among 32 ~ 42 conquset to me. I have no complaints using it with and without glasses. it is still one of my daily birding bino even I have 8x32 EL. more rugged armor and better focusing Ideal for birding with scopes. -
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Brief reviews about Zeiss victory SFL 8/10 x40
I haven compared mhg and sfl... but have conpared each of them with same reference. zeiss conquest 10x42 and Swaro EL 10x32 think sfl 10x40 have bit more CA at the edges of the fov then MHG. but better in center. sfl 10x40 CA gap between center and the edges above the average binocular of the... -
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Brief reviews about Zeiss victory SFL 8/10 x40
30mm has much larger eyecup then 25mm but little bit smaller then 32mm MHG and 7,M7 all have problems. the depth of field gets deeper when magnification gets lower. also CA gets better. so I love 8 power conquest more because two main negatives (CA, over fast focus) eased a bit when using... -
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Brief reviews about Zeiss victory SFL 8/10 x40
I don't compared HG with sfl. but compared conquest 10x42 with SFL 10x42 sfl has much higer color fidelity (conquset yellowish green.) so brightness might feel better in sfl. Conquest 10x42 have big CA problem in it's price point. SFL 10x42 have much CA in the rim but much better in the center... -
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Brief reviews about Zeiss victory SFL 8/10 x40
I have not seen 8x30 sfl. but I think 8x32 UV is bit better overall. but it doesn't have much ER then other bino at that price point. I'll go for UV if the price is same, but if it differs over 700$, I'll go for SFL -
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Brief reviews about Zeiss victory SFL 8/10 x40
It will be another buzz going on If I said that but.... I don't know how much EDG is at your country but EDG launched price in Japan and South Korea is about 1000~1300$ almost twice as cheap as leica ultravidat same time. and it is still sold at japan at 20000 yen (1500$)while noctivid and sf... -
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Brief reviews about Zeiss victory SFL 8/10 x40
Also in korea too, SF does have some issue of the eye placements. little more black outs then other big3 the eyepoint seems little bit easier for SFL maybe that is the reason Zeiss didn't expend SFL's fov?... edg is one of the most comfortable bino in daytiom especially under bright light. -
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Brief reviews about Zeiss victory SFL 8/10 x40
but still I enjoy it's wide view :) if the fov shrinks to 7.7 it's competition between swaro EL must be harder. I don't like the phases such as 'Its good for the prise because its just good' / 'Just clear and bright' and other simply hyping the binos for now reason. My motto of bino reviews is... -
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Brief reviews about Zeiss victory SFL 8/10 x40
I tried Nl 12x42 on a harness it is really better than normal strap. but it will be much lighter if I use SFL on harness :) In Korea, NL 42mm is about same price or little bit cheaper than 42mm SF & Noctivid. So almost all of the birders searching for high end optics goes for NL. -
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Brief reviews about Zeiss victory SFL 8/10 x40
+ eye glass black outs depends lot on it's wearer. other conquest I seen (32mm, 10x42, 8x56) has fine eyepoints, little different for some novice asian users though. but 8x42 conquest is another story. maybe because of small FOV + long ER combined, I have to screw it's eyecup little bit to see... -
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Brief reviews about Zeiss victory SFL 8/10 x40
I haven't seen 30mm SFL yet. since it is not available in Korea yet. 30mm bino such as monarch7, hg, swaro CL has harder eye placement than 32mm... guess SFL 30mm couldn't manage to avoid that too... weight DOES matters a lot. NL Pure has fabulous optic quality but my neck gets some strain when... -
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Brief reviews about Zeiss victory SFL 8/10 x40
guess I got too sensitive in CA because I've done many comparisons.... Even Zeiss Ht, Nikon edg's CA often bothers me. I think Kowa Genesis, swarovski EL/NL has top CA control at the center of the image between same mag and size. -
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Brief reviews about Zeiss victory SFL 8/10 x40
is my presonal preference. I also love looking through 10 powers. prefer Swaro EL 10x32 than 8x32, NL 10x42 than 8x42 and 10x32 leica uv HD over 8x32. if I guess the reason of my preference of 8 power zeiss, is the color. Zeiss 10 power I have said over has one similarity, It has little more... -
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Brief reviews about Zeiss victory SFL 8/10 x40
sf is a step above the sfl. more brightness, must wider sweetspot. but sf 8x42 has more CA at the rim (about 92% +) then sfl 8x40. only sf 8x42 has that issue belong other zeiss I seen. Central CA control of SF 8x42 is among the best maybe only little behind NL 8x42 -
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Brief reviews about Zeiss victory SFL 8/10 x40
you got the right bird name. It is common in korea. I use Samsung galaxy S21 with no phone adaptors. digiscope results is not close to real feel and often have significant differences from it but it is still the easiest way to show how the bino preforms. if it was taken carefully. -
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Brief reviews about Zeiss victory SFL 8/10 x40
It's about 92% about 3 percent lower than 10x42. and It have more CA at the rim of the FOV than any other zeiss victories I seen. so CA can also bother edge resolution. but I like 8x42 sf more than 10x42. 10x42 is too yellow for me. -
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Brief reviews about Zeiss victory SFL 8/10 x40
as I have taken over 100000 digiscipe photoes, I also know about that fact. It can chage little bit of change of placement of the camera and even depend's on color of the CA. for example, swarovski CA tend to be yellowish green / purple. and zeiss ht, fujinon hc, sf 10x42 tends to red and blue... -
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Brief reviews about Zeiss victory SFL 8/10 x40
yes I love that fact a lot. when birding, size and weight does matter. to some users it even matter than optic quality. SFL has weight and size right between 32mm and 42mm, but still have optic quality close to 42mm. -
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Brief reviews about Zeiss victory SFL 8/10 x40
+ compared to 8x40 SFL, 10x40 lose it's color fidelity (little bit more green). eye placement became little bit more finicky. worst fall is CA. 10x40 has much higher purplr CA at the side of the FOV (maybe about 80%+?) the side CA of sfl 10x40 but It has little bit more sweet spot too... -
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Brief reviews about Zeiss victory SFL 8/10 x40
Thread 'Hello from South Korea!' Hello from South Korea! As I'm doing binocular review continuously and gaining some influence over South Korean binocular society, Zeiss main distributor of South Korea lend me SFL 8x40 and 10x40 for review. As it was first introduced 2023 jan in Korea, I was...